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Wow. My dad is having computer problems, so I thought I'd just maybe get him
an iPad, something targeted at the person who turns it on a couple hours a
week. Set him up with 3G for $15/month, and he's good to go.
Except ... there's no backup, the disk is tiny, there's no external storage,
there's no printer connection, no scanner connector, no way to put music on
it without buying it, no way to put music you already bought onto it, ...
It really doesn't look like it's targeted at the casual user. It looks like
it's targeted at people who already have a high-end computer and now want
another one, or something.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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Darren New wrote:
> no way to put music on it without buying it, no way to put music you
> already bought onto it, ...
You can, but you need a separate computer with iTunes for that.
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> You can, but you need a separate computer with iTunes for that.
Well, yes. I'm saying it's not a computer, it's a peripheral. I can't use it
as a replacement computer for someone who is computer illiterate.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote in message
news:4bef1486$1@news.povray.org...
> It really doesn't look like it's targeted at the casual user. It looks
like
> it's targeted at people who already have a high-end computer and now want
> another one, or something.
It's a gadget, a glorified i-pod, not a computer. The brilliance of
marketing of Apple is that you have to buy their entire line of hardware,
software and subscription services to be properly funcational fanboy.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Except ... there's no backup
There is.
> the disk is tiny, there's no external storage,
> there's no printer connection, no scanner connector, no way to put music on
> it without buying it, no way to put music you already bought onto it, ...
The iPad is not being marketed as a laptop. Why are you expecting it to be?
Do you buy an XBox360 and expect it to be a PC? There are similarly many
thing that can be done with a PC that cannot be done with an XBox360.
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> The iPad is not being marketed as a laptop. Why are you expecting it to be?
To be honest, I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the iPad *is*
being marketed as. What's it supposed to *do*??
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > The iPad is not being marketed as a laptop. Why are you expecting it to be?
> To be honest, I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the iPad *is*
> being marketed as. What's it supposed to *do*??
You can play iPhone and iPad games with it, so it's a gaming platform.
There are also tons and tons of other applications for the iPhone, and in
the near future iPad-specific apps. You can also browse the WWW, read
your email, etc. You can buy and read ebooks, as well as iTunes music and
movies.
You can do all of those things (well, except for the ebooks) in an
iPhone/iPod Touch as well, but the iPad has a larger screen and larger
resolution, so things like browsing the WWW and watching movies are much
more comfortable.
So it's a multimedia platform.
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- Warp
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On 16/05/2010 10:11 AM, Warp wrote:
> You can do all of those things (well, except for the ebooks) in an
> iPhone/iPod Touch as well, but the iPad has a larger screen and larger
> resolution, so things like browsing the WWW and watching movies are much
> more comfortable.
You can read books on the iphone using an app called Stanza and convert
soft books and documents using calibre. Both are free.
Holding my iphone sideways I get 9 lines of text on the screen, it is
usable. I read about 5 books on it before buying a Sony PRS-600. The
iphone app is handy because I have my phone to hand and can dip into a
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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Warp wrote:
> The iPad is not being marketed as a laptop. Why are you expecting it to be?
I wasn't, really. I was hoping it could serve for one, for sufficiently
modest needs.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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And lo On Sun, 16 May 2010 05:26:53 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did
spake thusly:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Except ... there's no backup
>
> There is.
>
>> the disk is tiny, there's no external storage,
>> there's no printer connection, no scanner connector, no way to put
>> music on
>> it without buying it, no way to put music you already bought onto it,
>> ...
>
> The iPad is not being marketed as a laptop.
No it's being marketed as "The best way to experience the web, email,
photos, and video. Hands down" So you're going to get people thinking "I
just my laptop to surf the web, get my email and look at my photos. Hey I
can get this cool iPad instead" or even as Darren suggested possibly get
it for someone who does really just do that. At which point you discover
you're tied to using the Apple Store to get your music, you can't import
any of your existing music, you can't get your photos to it unless you use
the optional "iPad Camera Connection Kit" because using a standard USB
slot would be way to easy. You can't backup those photos or email easily.
Yes it's an accessory, but it's not really being marketed as that either.
If they'd proclaimed that it was a big iPhone without the ability to make
calls people would probably grasp that it had limitations, but they're not
so it's a reasonable question to ask and a reasonable thing to expect.
> Do you buy an XBox360 and expect it to be a PC? There are similarly
> many
> thing that can be done with a PC that cannot be done with an XBox360.
Do you buy a PS3 expecting it to be a PC? Yet I can surf the net, view my
photos, get videos, import my CDs, I can hook up a mouse and keyboard and
even print from it. In theory there's nothing stopping anyone from
creating a PS3 word processor or spread sheet that runs off a disc.
Nothing stopping Sony adding such as a permanent app in the same way as
VidZone or iPlayer was added. The lines blur and what defines a product is
less what it can do, but what it can't do. An iPad fulfills the criteria
needed for a casual laptop user until you hit the restrictions.
--
Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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